Mailing parcel



July 19, 1932- H. w. BREWER MAILING PARCEL Filed April 27, 1931 SIX SIMPLE STEPS? i I I I I fge fla g W jrewe/ BY QLMQM A rTae wr Patented July 19, 1932 UNITED STA TES .HARRY W. BREWER, OF ST. LOIIlISQlVIISSOURI rattan MAILING PARCEL Application filed A ri127,

' This invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement in mailing parcels and has particular reference to a combined mailing pocket and wrapper-therefor. The objects of the invention are to provide a merchandise container or parcel suitable for transportation with letter mail; to pro-, vide a mailing parcel adapted for the-visual exposure of its contents without unsealing w or opening the same; to provide a mailing merchandise-container or pocket having a protectingly overfoldable wrapper; to provide a mailing parcel adapted also for advertising purposes, the parcel. comprising a pocket for containing the merchandise and an addressing wrapper bearing also the advertising matter foldable and sealable around the pocket, the wrapper being integrally connected to the pocket and being readily unfoldable for visibly displaying the advertising matter; and to improve upon and generally simplify the structure of devices of the type described.

And with the above and other objects in View, my invention resides in the novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is an opened plan view of a com bined mailingpocket and wrapper forming the mailing parcel of my invention,

Figure 2 is an end View of the parcel in closed or mailing form, the wrapper being folded and sealed around the merchandise pocket; and

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the parcel as manipulated for postal inspection.

7 Referring now more in detail and by'refa!) erence characters to the drawing, which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my inventon, my new mailing parcel includes a body-portion or wrapper A preferably 0011-. structed of a single sheet orsection of paper adapted to bear on the greater part of its inner face any suitable printed or otherwise applied advertising-matter or the like, whether text, pictorial representations, or both, as suggested at 1, Figure 1. The sheet A is preferably impressed or otherwise pro- 1931. Serial No. 533,352.

vided upon its inner face, with score-lines 2 permanently adhesivelyor otherwise suitably e fixed along its then upwardly presented end, as at 7, to, the panel 8, thepanel 3 and its extension 6 forming the opposed side walls of a merchandise receptive or mailing pocket B. Preferably the width of the pocket B is approximately half the width of. the'panel '3,- although such dimension of thepocliet B may be more or less than shown, as may best serve its intended purpose.

At the ends of the pocket B, the

Sis providedpreferably integrally with opposed lateral foldable flaps 8 and 9, theione body-panel flap 8 being overfolded upon, and adhesively or otherwisesuitably fixed, as at 1Q,to', the

wall 6 and thereby permanently closing, and a forming. a wall for, one'end of the pocket At its opposite end, the pocket B is normally open for the reception of the particular merchandise, upon the insertion of which the flap 9 is also'foldedlover upon, and adhesively, as by itsgummed-portion 11, fixed to, the wall 6, thereby completely closing, and forming a wall for the other end of, the pocket B.

' lThe pocket-wall 6 is provided with a plurality of sight-apertures 12 for visibly exposing the'contents C of the mailing pocket 113, said contents comprising, in' the present instanca'a pencil or the like, which, residing hence in the'closed pocket B, is protected against unauthorized removal therefrom, al-

' though, as I desire to particularly point out, the nature of'the contentsof the pocketB may be readily discerned through the apertures In the mails,'howe ver, it is desirablethat the sight open ngs 12 be normally covered or protected from'mere casual observation and that the pocket B and its contained merchan- 'dise C be enclosed or wrapped for protectionv from damage in handling or the like. Hence the sheet A is adapted for enfolding the pocket B flatwise in the panel-like formations, 3, 4, 5, the sheet A being hence wrapped around the pocket B one or more times, as

.may best serve the purpose, a'gummed flap 13 being provided on the panel 5 for attaching its end to an intermediate or adjacent panel 4 (Figure 2).

Obviously, however, to obtain the benefit of lower mail rates, the contents C of the pocket B must be subject to at least deliberate postal inspection. For the furtherance of such purpose, therefore, the wrapper A is composed of flexible material, that is, as I have said, preferably a sheet of paper or the like, in order that the walls of thewrapper A may be manually manipulated, as by grasping the opposed edges of the folded wrapper 0r envelope. for flexing the walls or; panels 4, 5, thereof for expanding the same away from the enclosed side of the pocket B, whereby the contents thereof is visible through the apertures 12 by peering through the thus expanded or opened end or ends of the wrapper A, as illustrated in Figure 3.

The sealing, as at 7, of the end of the wall 6 may extend entirely across the width of the sheet A, or, as in the present instance, the wall 6 may be unattached for a portion of its length'for providing a slot 14 for reception of a suitable postal or return-card D, or the like, the latter being hence insertable into the pocket B between the wall 6 of the pocket B and the panel 3 of the wrapper body-A, as 7 best seen in Figure 1.

Preferably. also, the exposed or exterior face of one of the panels, as 4, is printed with suitable address lines 15 and the like, as seen in Figure 3.

' It will thus be seen that my invention provides for an inexpensive, neat, eificient, and highly attractive mailing parcel adapted to fully protect its contained merchandise, while permitting complete postal inspection of the same. thereby" obtaining the benefits of fourth-class postal rates, with the appearance of first-class matter.

Further, the merchandise pocket is connection over and upon the said marginal portions of sa1d one extension for closing the ends of said pocket, said end extension having a contents-exposing aperture intermediate the ends of the pocket and said other end and intermediate panels being folded to respec:

tively overlie and underlie said first end panel and said pocket, and a flap-extension on said other end-panel for securement fiatwise upon the outer face of an adjacent panel for sealing the parcel, the parcel being normally flat and being squeezably expandable under opposed pressure applied at opposed edges of the parcel for visually exposing said aperture.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

HARRY W. BREWER.

veniently enclosed by a conjoined wrapper which readily adapts itself both for advertising purposes and for receiving the addressees name, both the wrapper and the pocket being easily unsealed or opened for respectiv reading or removal of contents.

It will be understood that changes and modifications in the form, construction, arrangement and combination of the several parts of my mailing parcel may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is z r V A mailing parcel constructed of a single section of flexible material and integrally 

